Busiest Season
First off, let me remind you that for this month only, we are offering discounts for all couples getting married in 2005. The discounts are pretty significant and are enacted only once per year.
I had a bride-to-be ask me for a discount the other day for a wedding happening in June 2005. I was happy to inform her of our discount for early-brides like her but it got me to thinking that brides tend to not really know the culture of the wedding industry. Of course I did not know at one point either and the only reason I know now is because I have been involved with 100 weddings or so over the last two years.
Wedding videographers, photographers, and DJs will all usually tell you the same thing. The busy season starts in May and does not really let up until September. For Simply Interactive our busiest months this year are June, August, and September. Last year they were May, June, August and September.
Are you seeing a pattern there? Good. Because if your wedding is in those months there are two things you should probably know --
1) Your vendors are not likely to come down in price unless you book them about 9 to 12 months in advance.
2) You should REALLY consider booking them early.
Especially the videographer and the photographer. The reason is that those two are the ones that will capture your day in a way that will enable you to relive the hard work and effort and ultimate payoff of all of your planning and the second most life-altering event in your life (kids being the first, trust me on that!). You want to make sure that you are able to pick and choose, not get stuck with who is available.
For videographers it is important to know that you don't necessarily have to have a specific videographer shoot your wedding as long as you get to pick the editor.
I am currently the only editor for Simply Interactive, but we have three different occasions this year where we are shooting 3 weddings on the same day, and several other occasions where we are shooting 2 weddings on the same day. Obviously I cannot be everywhere. I hire other videographers to shoot the wedding for me and I set about to editing the video later.
The point is that with the videographer at least, you do have some leeway (sp?) with the busy season, but you may have to wait a bit longer to get your video back and edited.
